If you are still averaging down on a bleeding chart because of high conviction, stop now.

Watching a position go red is painful, but watching it swallow your entire portfolio while you wait for a bounce that never comes is worse. We have all been there, staring at the screen and hoping for a miracle.

A trader recently shared how they turned a bad $20,000 loss into a devastating $50,000 disaster by letting their conviction override risk management on $SPCX. It is the classic trap of listening to the market noise instead of the chart.

This feels exactly like the capitulation we saw with $LUNA or $FTT where traders kept buying the dip all the way to the bottom. We convince ourselves that this time is different, but the market does not care about our feelings.

Have you ever doubled down on a losing trade only to watch it get worse, or did you learn to cut your losses early?

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